Toy savings-bank



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I ALEXANDER BARTON, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

TOY SAVINGS-BAN K.

. SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 496,393, dated May 2,1893.

Application filed November 28, 1892- Serial No. 453.301- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER BAR'roN,a subject of the Queen of GreatBritain, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State ofMassachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in ToySavings- Banks, of which the following is a specification.

The bank which is the subject of this invention, is provided with tworeceiving slots and is so constructed that when coins are put into itthrough the two slots, the money deposited in one slot falls into apermanent receptacle in the bank and 'can only be withdrawn by takingthe structure apart, while the money deposited in the other slot fallsinto a drawer accessible from the outsidethe money permanently depositedbeing always the heavier amount and the money received by the drawerbeing the lighter amount. Thus the child using the toy bank notonlydeposits but draws, but draws always less than he deposits.

The nature of the invention in detail is fully described below andillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure 1 is a viewin perspective of a toy bank embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a centralcross vertical section of the same. Fig. 3 is a central longitudinalvertical section of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

A is the front and A the rear wall of the bank, and B B are the endwalls.

O is the top and C the floor, all constructed of any suitable material.

D D are parallel partitions extending from the front wall A to the rearwall A and provided with vertical slots D, and E is a drawer betweensaid partitions sliding on the floor (1 and capable of being withdrawnfrom the outside. The partitions are so situated that the drawer is inthe center of the lower portion of the front wall.

F F are pivot pins extending horizontally from the front and rear Wallsand located equidistant from the end walls B B On these pins is a shaftH and extending 'in opposite directions from this shaft toward the endwalls and integral or rigid with it, are two levers I. Or the two couldbe termed one lever I fulthe front and rear walls A A.

crumed on the shaft but placed so as to exactly balance. These leversextend through the slots D and have their outer ends I turned so as topoint upward, for the purpose of sustaining normally in a horizontalposition two leaves or trap-floors J J rigidly secured to the horizontalpivots K having their bearingsin These pivots are directly. over andnext the upper ends of the partitions D, and as the trap-floors orswinging shelves J J extend to the end walls B B respectively, it willbe seenthat two side compartments are thus created, on opposite sides ofthe central compartment created by the partitions D. Out in the top Cdirectly over the trap-floors J J respectively are two slots L L.

N is a horizontal partition or cover whose opposite edges rest normallyon the inner edges of the swinging traps J J and bridging the spacebetween them over the drawer E. A lifting-rod P extends up from thispartition N through the top 0 and aspring R surrounding said, rodbetweenthe top and the partition, holds the latter normally down asshown.

The lifting rod P has a head P and under it lies the bifurcated end S ofa lifting lever S fulcrumed on the bracketT secured to the top 0, andprovided with the handle S.

The operation is as follows: Suppose four pennies are dropped throughthe slot L and three through the slot L. The four pennies would fall onthe trap J and the three on the trap J, both of which would remainstationary, being held by the plate or partition N, and also by theperfectly balanced lever I. Now, if the handle S of the lever S bepressed, its bifurcated end S lifts the rod R and plate N, and the trapJ having four pennies (the heavier weight) upon it drops into theposition shown in broken lines in Fig. 3, and the four pennies slideover the edge into the compartment between the side wall 13 andpartition D. The dropping of the trap J carries down that arm of thelever I and tips the opposite arm up, its end I forcing up the trap Jinto the position shown'in broken lines in Fig. 3, so that the threepennies on it slide down over its inner edge and drop into the drawer E.Thus the child has permanently deposited four pennies, and hastemporarily deposited three pennies in the drawer E, from trap J wouldfall and the trap J be lifted and thus the money dropped through theslot L be permanently deposited, and that dropped through the slot Lwould be deposited in the drawer. As soon as the rod P is released, the

parts resume the positions shown in full lines in Fig. 3. The plate orpartition N not only serves to hold the edges of the shelves (whichwould be kept horizontal by the balance lever I) but prevents moneydeposited in the bank from being shaken into the drawerand thencewithdrawn.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a toy bank, the combination of the pivoted swinging or trap-floorsJ J, pivoted within the bank, and located over the correspondingcompartments and the balance lever I whose fulcrum is located betweenthe trapfloors and over a central compartment and whose ends extend upto said trap floors, whereby when one of the floors is depressed byoverweighting it, it falls and depresses the corresponding end of thelever, lifting the other end and raising the other floor, rendering thecompartment beneath the depressed floor accessible and that beneath theraised floor inaccessible, substantially as set forth.

2. In a toy bank, the combination of the horizontal trap-floors J Jpivoted at K to the Walls of the bank, the balanced lever I with itsupturned ends I beneath said floors, the vertical partitions D, and thedrawer E accessible from the outside, said bank being provided withslots over said floors, substantially as described.

3. In a toy bank, the combination of the swinging trap-floors J J,balanced lever I, horizontal plate or partition N bridging the spacebetween the 'fioors J J, partitions D, lifting rod P and spring R andlever for lifting said rod, said bank being provided with slots oversaidfloors, substantiallyas set forth.

ALEXANDER BARTON.

Witnesses:

HENRY W. WILLIAMS, J. M. HARTNETT.

